jueves, 28 de enero de 2010


Is soul a product of body functions?

In time of Aristotle were people start to think on soul as an independent entity from body, they think in soul as a religious topic like something beside us who belongs to another reality like heaven. And some people think in reincarnation when peoples soul travel, so thinking like that soul act beside the body but in my opinion soul is something inside us like an energy and it can’t work without a body, neither a body without a soul. So soul is in a way product of body functions if you don’t believe in reincarnation because if you do soul doesn’t form is and always going to be like that and is just one soul that travels around every body and body functions doesn’t affect soul and if soul is an independent entity we can’t explain how the soul was made and I think this will always be a unknown topic.

Aristotle


Aristotle philosophy is difficult to understand.Aristotle gave us so many topics to think on, and all this topics with a new idea from the idea of Plato, this new idea was the reason, he was a rationalist. For me what was more interesting about aristotle pfilosophy was ethics because he question of how was good and then now this good inside of each one of us, each person act in society and then people create relations between citizens and how this relation create a polis, the polis depend on citizens and citizens depend on polis, to make this cicle work you have to think on good for everybody, good for people (eudaimonia)for that this idea has tracended because you can also take this idea and adapt it to our society were almost everybody look for a common goodness.

domingo, 10 de enero de 2010

Plato


As been Plato a Socrates diciple he had some ideas based on Socrates discurses. Plato make a huge step because his ideas has tracended in all this years, he think on reality and he explain it throught the allegory od the cave were he said that the shadows are the truth. Plato influenced a lot of philosophers with his ideas he made of philosophy a disipline. I think Plato is so important because he take a big risk by saying that what we live is a lie and just in the world of ideas is the truth because an idea for Plato is the´perfect escence of things so this ideas are represented in the earth as a reflection. I also want to know more about the reaction of people when Plato said that our reality is a lie and how people take it and if they work with it. A big part of Platos ideas is an influence of what Socrates think and Plato saw in Socrates a big teacher so he want to work in his ideas and explain them to people.

Naturalism


I think to understand why naturalism is so importan we mus try to understand how was living in a time were people think that everything was a construction by gods and were you cant imagine what was the origin of nature, I think is a great advance especially the athomic theory were they explain us that we are made up of invisible pieces that supose to match to make us how we are, so that was a huge change from the idea of gods but I think gods were also there in the mind of people and to replace this idea was the most difficult think. I think Naturalism is a point were science and philosophy joined and were the escence of nature is explained and when we understand nature we understand everything and also is and advance of so many theories like evolution that we believe now. So in conclussion Thales change their time by giving explanations of natural things without the base of a supernatural power.